Webinars
PUBLIC RESOURCE
Our webinars provide support, information, and a forum for dancers, dance educators, researchers, and medical professionals. The programming includes panel discussions and videos on mental health, safe dance practice, and more.
View all of our public webinars here, including our Helping Dancers Help Themselves webinar series, our Medical Committee's webinar series, and select presentations and interviews from our conferences over the years. All archived webinars are also available on the IADMS Youtube Channel. Subscribe today!
Our COVID response webinar series, entitled Helping Dancers Help Themselves, is also available on the IADMS app. Here you can access the event feed to interact with fellow professionals around the world. The IADMS app is available in the Apple or Google Play store on your mobile device, or on your desktop.
View our full calendar of eLearning sessions coming up here!
Big Messy Conversations
A 4-Part Series on Dance Education
We invite you to join Dance Educators’ Committee Chair, Ellie Kusner, along with committee members Joe Bowie and Brenton Surgenor in a series of “big messy conversations” about dance science education. The series will include invited guests and copious, informal discussion in a semi-structured format--imagine a long table discussion over brunch with a few guidelines! We aim to offer space for all to share in an open and equitable way. Rather than looking to define labels or establish facts, we hope to explore perceptions, listen deeply, question, and invite ideas for creative steps forward. Our hope is that these conversations will serve as a beginning to ongoing dialogue which flows out into our communities.
We invite you to attend all four of these big messy conversations over the next few months, but each can also be enjoyed a la carte! To assure a vibrant discussion, space is limited and pre-registration is required. The first 18 seats will be reserved for IADMS members.
Part I. How Did We Get Here?
This event occurred on April 25th - 9:00am ET
The first of this four-part series, "How Did We Get Here?" took place on Sunday, April 25, at 9:00 am Eastern Time. This conversation reflected on the historical roots of dance science education and how dance science educators and students might restructure, reimagine, and reflect on its future. We posed questions such as: How did dance science and dance science education first develop? Who were the key players? How has it evolved, and where might we go next?
Part II. What Do Students Want?
August 8 - 12:00pm EDT
FREE - Registration Required(opens August 1)
*Priority seating to IADMS members
The second of this four-part series on Big Messy Conversations: What Do Students Want? will be held from 12:00-1:30pm EDT on Sunday, August 8, 2021. This session will explore Dance Science Education with the IADMS Dance Educators' Committee and Student Committee to exchange ideas and explore the needs of today's students.
As dance science becomes more mainstream in dance education, student concerns ate changing and developing. What do today’s students want from their dance science curriculum? This long table conversation will explore student concerns related to dance science and how current curricula is, or is not, meeting their needs.
Bridging IADMS. An Interdisciplinary Webinar Series
This webinar series, Bridging IADMS: Discovering Attention and Focus Strategies in Practice, aims to provide a background introduction and application on the topic of Attentional Focus. Attentional Focus is perhaps one of the most relevant research areas that sports science can bring to dance. Attention and focus skills represent a new frontier of potential, relatively unchartered performance enhancement for dance. The robust findings of the last 20 years apply equally across the disciplines, bridging the practice of IADMS members.
Each month, host Clare Guss-West, MA, together with guest presenters and specialists from varied disciplines, will lead attendees in a practical, interactive session that explores how to implement this research directly into practice. Participants will have the opportunity to engage, inquire, and discuss attentional focus while exploring its challenges together with others in breakout groups. Together presenters and attendees will take a metacognitive journey to explore how we habitually use word instructions, cueing, and feedback; how we filter professional information to prevent performer fragmentation and information overload; and how we guide the attention and focus of our dancers, students, and patients to promote optimal performance outcome.
Learn more about this topic in a recent blog post with IADMS Committee Members Johanna Osmala and Clare Guss West.
How to Use an External Focus of Attention to Enhance Effective Teaching
May 29 - 11:00am ET/ 3:00pm GMT
FREE - Registration Required SOLD OUT!
The first in this 5-part interdisciplinary series will focus on the Dance Educator. Register now (SOLD OUT! Wait List Only) and join special guest Ellie Kusner, MSc, IADMS Dance Educators' Committee Chair, and host Clare Guss-West for this exciting free event!
Dance for All - Attentional teaching tools to facilitate dance for those with movement and learning challenges
June 18 - 11:00am ET/ 3:00pm GMT
FREE - Registration Required
The second in this 5-part interdisciplinary series will focus on the Dance for Health Teaching Artists and Facilitators. Special guest David Leventhal, Program Director of Dance for PD, Mark Morris Dance Group, NY, and IADMS Dance for Health Committee member will host this webinar with Clare Guss-West.
External Focus of Attention: A Tool for Rehabilitation and Physical Performance
July 29 - 11:00am ET/ 3:00pm GMT
FREE - Registration Required
The third in this 5-part interdisciplinary series will focus on the Allied Healthcare Professionals. Special guest Johanna Osmala, PT, Head Physiotherapist of Finnish National Ballet, and IADMS Program Committee member will lead this webinar with host Clare Guss-West. Whether you are a physiotherapist, an S&C coach, an athletic trainer, a Pilates instructor, or a dance teacher/dancer, we will explore the potential impact of your choice of attentional focus in therapy, rehabilitation, and physical training settings.
Discover how a small shift in focus, change of wording, or implementation of imagery for cueing has the potential to immediately impact the physical movement outcome. Register on July 15 to gain how-to tools to begin harnessing the benefits of an external focus of attention in your practice.
A New Frontier in Dance – Attention and Focus Training Provides the Winning Edge for Your Performance
August 22 - 10:00am PT/ 5:00pm GMT
FREE - Registration Required
The fourth in this 5-part interdisciplinary series will focus on Competition Dancers and Teachers. Special guest Astrid Sherman, ISTD North American Representative, LA Chapter -The Bridge Dance Project, and IADMS Dance Educators' Committee member will lead this webinar with host Clare Guss-West.
Whether you are a jazz, contemporary, ballet, hip-hop, or tap dancer and teacher, this webinar will offer you tools to heighten performance in all forms of competitive dance. Come and join us and get great tips from this new field and develop winning edge coaching skills.
Space is Limited.
The Best You that You Can Be - Attention and Focus Tools to Enhance Power and Precision, and Renew Energy and Stamina for Training, Rehearsal, and Performance.
November/December - Date/Time TBA
FREE - Registration Required
The fifth and final in this 5-part interdisciplinary series will focus on Pre-Professional and Professional Dancers. Special guest Madeleine Onne, Artistic Director of Finnish National Ballet, and IADMS Honorary Member will lead this webinar with host Clare Guss-West.
"HELPING DANCERS HELP THEMSELVES" SERIES
IADMS is proud to present a series of webinars that have been produced in response to the outbreak of COVID-19. These public webinar series address mental health concerns, safe dance practice in isolation, and how to prepare for returning to the studio/class during the pandemic.
Part 1: How is COVID-19 Affecting Us
This webinar is the inaugural mental health session for professionals who work with performing artists and, in particular, professional and pre-professional dancers. for a half-hour webinar examining how the current COVID-19 pandemic is affecting performing artists, and how we can help ourselves and each other.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Part 2: Why am I Feeling This Way and What Can I Do?
Emotions, moods, affect, and feelings that we may experience during the current COVID-19 pandemic and from the pervasive disruptions to our lives are explored in the second mental health webinar. Join our panel to explore theory related to, and evidence-based practical strategies for, mental health and performing artists.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Part 3: Stress and Coping
This webinar explores stressors that dancers may experience in association with COVID-19. Our panelists will be discussing with the president of IADMS, Peter Lewton-Brain, how COVID-19 impacts dancers and how the body responds to stressful situations. Strategies for coping with stressful events are offered.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Part 4: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, During COVID-19
This webinar covers key concepts about sleep and its influence on dancers’ health. Dreams, nightmares, and COVID-19 dreams are identified. Dancers are offered strategies to regulate sleep and manage nightmares.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Part 5: Sensitive and Resilient, Two Sides of The Same Coin
The webinar focuses on the reality that COVID 19 has situated our entire industry in a fragile state. Our panelists offer valuable insights on sensitivity and resilience in performing artists. A deeper understanding of resilience and how it influences sensitivity will be examined. Six strategies for enhancing resilience during challenging times are offered to dancers to add to their dance bag of coping resources.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Part 6: ReEntry - Navigating the New Normal with COVID-19
The coronavirus catapulted us into an unprecedented and uncertain way of life. We were expected to practice social distancing, endure disruptions in life and work, fear and anxiety, death, loss of income, and restricted movement. And now, we are faced with new territory to navigate — re-entering a world that is unexpectedly different. How do we leave the safety of our homes and move back to what we did before, or do we? Our expert panel explores how we can successfully navigate the transition to a new normal in the wake of COVID-19. In this webinar, our panelists discuss getting the mind and the body prepared for returning to activity.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Part 7: Psychosocial Changes: Navigating the New Normal with COVID-19
The coronavirus catapulted us into an unprecedented, uncertain, and unnerving way of life. We have experienced social isolation, physical distancing, life and work disruption, illness, fear and anxiety, death, loss of income, and loss of personal freedom and movement. And now, we are faced with an unfamiliar territory to navigate—re-entering a world that is different from the one we left. How do we leave the safety of our homes and move back to what we did before, or do we? Our expert panel explores how we can successfully navigate the transition to a new normal lifestyle in the wake of COVID-19 in the 7th webinar of the series on Performers Mental Health explores. In this webinar, panelists discuss, with host Bonnie Robson, about getting the mind and the body prepared for returning to activity.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback.
Part 8: Loss and Grief
Loss and grief are permeating daily life during these unprecedented times. Loss can be experienced whenever a major change transpires. The grieving process that follows is often more difficult as a result of COVID-19; many experts fear that this grieving process may be prolonged which may make bereavement even more difficult.
If you or someone you know is struggling and looking for help, please contact a local mental health professional or crisis hotline. Here is a link to resources available in the US or Canada: https://www.griefresourcenetwork.com/crisis-center/hotlines/
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback.
Part 9: Depression: Dark Night of the Soul
Depression can be a transitory state provoked by unsettling situations; however, if it persists and compromises functioning and wellbeing, then it is considered a medical illness and requires professional treatment. A major life event might tip the balance and push some individuals into clinical depression. This webinar outlines symptoms of depression and offers suggestions on how to manage it.
North American Suicide Hotline - 800-273-8255
Websites for International Suicide Hotlines
https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines
http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
Mental Health Websites (with hotlines):
Safe Dance Practice in Quarantine: A Panel Conversation for Educators, with IADMS and SiDI Leaders
This live panel discussion with IADMS and Safe in Dance International leaders took place on Saturday, April 25, 2020, in the IADMS Science for Dance Educators Facebook group. Dance educators of any level and dancers (student, pre-professional, or professional) were invited to join, listen to the conversation, and share their questions with the panelists.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Conditioning for Dance during COVID-19: Strength, Power, Endurance, and Speed
This live stream panel discussion occurred on Saturday, May 9, 2020, in the IADMS Science for Dance Educators Facebook group. Dance educators of any level and dancers (student, pre-professional, or professional) were invited to join, listen to the conversation, and share their questions with the panelists.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Exploring the Scope of Dance Education During COVID-19
This panel will help you consider your new teaching practice through the lens of science. We will discuss the education of the dancing body and brain with ideas from neuroscience, improvisation, somatics, and more.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Dance for Health Interventions during a Global Pandemic... and Beyond
Dance for health educators brings the power of dance to a wide range of populations, all of whom face unique challenges in isolation. What's more, many of these students are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, so while studios around the world cautiously begin to reopen, it is likely that many dance for health teachers will continue to work with their students in a virtual format. In order to support these important educators, this panel invites members of the IADMS Dance for Health Committee to discuss their work during this global pandemic and consider the future of their field.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
MEDICAL COMMITTEE WEBINARS
Through these webinars, the IADMS Medical Committee seeks to highlight dance-specific concerns around communication with medical providers. Case studies, integration with artistic staff, and the advantages of a medical team's support will be covered in these panels comprised of distinguished dancers/dance companies, leading physicians, and their medical teams.
Effective Communication with a Dancer
This seminar, entitled "Effective Communication with a Dancer" is designed to explore the way in which medical professionals, dancers, and artistic directors view injury and the ways in which they communicate during a clinical encounter. The seminar will show where there is overlap and where there are opportunities for improvement and will draw from a wealth of professional experience from the speakers.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
Interdisciplinary Care of Dance Injury - Modern Dance
This panel highlights the importance of interdisciplinary communication and collaboration with dancer-centered care to optimize outcomes. Alongside medical experts from IADMS and special guests from the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), is Madelyn Ho, a past Paul Taylor Dance Company member who speaks to her injury and care with a dance medicine team.
Note: this webinar is free and available to the public. After viewing this presentation, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback on the IADMS app.
GUEST SPEAKER INTERVIEWS & PRESENTATIONS
View a selection of recorded presentations and interviews from past IADMS Annual Conferences here. For more, check out our Archives page.
Implementing Dance Science: A Panel Discussion
This panel discussion, from the IADMS 27th Annual Conference, held in Houston, Texas, USA, discusses the effective use of dance science in practice.
Tale of the Tallus Presentation & Dance Medicine Collaboration: A Discussion
This presentation, Tales of the Talus, is from the IADMS 27th Annual Conference, held in Houston, Texas, USA. Go behind the scenes with presenters in an exclusive post-presentation discussion, Dance Medicine Collaborations.
Biomimetic Surgical Implants Presentation & Interview
Watch Dr. Tasciotti's presentation and an exclusive interview on his research presented at the IADMS 27th Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, USA.
Interview with Susan Jaffe & Kathryn Morgan
A conversation with world-renowned dancers, Susan Jaffe and Kathryn Morgan about their experiences with injury, performance longevity, and how dance medicine and science have influenced their own professional and personal goals.
An Interview with Paula Baird Colt
An interview with Paul Baird Colt from the IADMS 27th Annual Conference, held in Houston, Texas, USA, on her research and experiences teaching dancers at The Australian Ballet and her thoughts for the continuation of dance medicine & science.
An Interview with Neeru Jayanthi
A post-presentation interview with guest speaker, Neeru Jayanthi, MD, from his presentation titled "Overuse Injuries and Specialization: What Can Dance Medicine and Science Learn from Sport?" Dr. Jayanthi's talk was presented at the Opening Ceremony of the IADMS 27th Annual Conference, held in Houston, Texas, USA.
An Interview with Selina Shah
Selina Shah, MD, shares her experiences in dance medicine as a member of the IADMS Board of Directors, Dance/USA Taskforce on Dancer Health, and head physician for the San Francisco Ballet School, touching on medical research, dance culture, and social media. This interview was recorded at the IADMS 27th Annual Conference, held in Houston, Texas, USA.